Solving Cross Eye Dominance
Solving Cross Eye Dominance
Solving Cross Eye Dominance is critical to your success as a shooter. But how do these Fibre Optic Shotgun Sights solve cross eye dominance?
How is it done?
In essence we "force" the shooter to use the correct eye. That sounds a bit severe but the shooter won't even know its happening.
What is the correct eye? Well that depends on what shoulder you mount the gun on, not what your dominant eye is.
If you mount your gun on the right shoulder, you should use the "right eye".
If you mount your gun on the left shoulder, you should use the "left eye".
Why? Because the eye "nearest" to the shoulder the gun is mounted on is doing the alignment. EYE + BEAD + TARGET are aligned in each scenarios above.
Its got nothing to do with dominant eye, just the correct eye. Well only if you use this sight because as we said in the introduction, we force the shooter to use the correct eye and it happens because the fibre optic is buried deep inside the sight body. You can only see the fibre optic if you look axially into the body. The eye nearest the shoulder the gun is mounted is the only eye that "can" look axially into the sight, the other eye is prevented from viewing the fibre optic by the actual Sight Body. That is due to the interpupillary spacing of the eye (approximately 64mm).
So, when shooting with both eyes open, you will only see one image of the fibre optic, irrespective of what shoulder you mount the gun on and irrespective of whether you are left or right eye dominant. It will always be the "correct eye" that does the alignment.
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If you don't use this Sight and use a conventional Bead you will be able to see the bead from both eyes simultaneously with both eyes open. The consequence of being "cross eye dominant" means that one of the eyes will be the dominant eye. So you actually see 2 images of the bead, one from each eye. The brain will only select one of the images, that will be the brightest / clearest image.
Using a conventional bead with gun mounted on your right shoulder and being left eye dominant and due to the eye separation, your brain will align the left EYE + BEAD + TARGET and as far as the shooters is concerned, the EYE, BEAD and TARGET are all in line and assumes that when you pull the trigger, what is in line is what gets shot. Clearly, as shown in the image below, the gun is looking at a totally different line of sight.
With both eyes open and Gun mounted on your right hand shoulder
It doesn't matter if you are Left or Right eye dominant, you only see the Fibre Optic from the correct eye, and that is the eye nearest to the gun! The complete opposite happens if you mount your gun on the other shoulder! The SGS-100 Shotgun Sight is ambidextrous!
Many shooters are aware they are cross eye dominant and to try to solve the problem by closing one eye. As mentioned earlier, this caused another massive problem. What that does is to ensure the EYE + BEAD + TARGET was all in line as it should be, BUT they are now without the ability to judge distance and speed having lost the phenomenon of stereoscopic vision.
Shooting a moving target requires two MUST HAVE attributes: A) The ability to judge distance, B) The ability to judge speed. There is only one way you can achieve both those attributes and that is to shoot with both eyes open. The error at range is considerable if you are not aware you are cross eye dominant. Assuming the Bead is 650 mm from your eye (at the end of the barrel) and your left eye is 64 mm from your right eye, that subtends an angle of error of 5.5 degrees.
At a range of 30 Metres, this equates to an error of 2.9 Metres (114"). So, if you know you are cross eye dominant, and you want to keep your stereoscopic vision, these Fibre Optic Shotgun Sights from CADtec3D is the answer!
CADtec3D supply several Shotgun Sights that have other special attributes.
- Shotgun Front Sights from CADtec3D will ensure you have an effective gun mount, and improve your aim!
- And allows the shooter to balance the availability of ambient light with accuracy by introducing a range of Sight Chokes!
- And Sights from CADtec3D will never fall of your Vent Rib like some can and do!
Click the links below to find out more!
SGS-100 Vent Rib Sight
Our recommended way of using this Sight
Mount your gun and hard focus on the Sight Picture, positioning your gun until you see a full circle light, this indicates your gun is aligned.
Now, do not hard focus on your Sight anymore. Hard focus on your Target, or at the distance you know the target will be. This is critical. You only need to be "AWARE" of the Sight Picture in your “SECONDARY” vision.
"BOTH EYES" must be open all the time, when the Sight Picture in your "SECONDARY" vision is on the Target, you know the gun barrel axis is looking at the target also because the Sight and Gun barrel are coaxial.
With both eyes open, you gave yourself:
- The maximum situation awareness (horizontal and vertical field of view).
- You gave yourself Stereoscopic vision which gives you the ability to judge speed.
- It also gives you the ability to judge distance.
Being able to judge Speed and Distance is imperative in order to consistently hit moving targets. It only works when both eyes are open!
If within 30 days of purchase you are unhappy for whatever reason simply return it, undamaged and we will refund your money 100% no questions asked!
Please note, a shipping charge based on your location will be added at checkout.
You will be able to track the progress of the shipment in transit.
No Gun smithing required to fit your Sight.
If you have any questions at all, feel free to call or email us using the contact info at the very top of the page. We will get back to you as soon as we can!
Even if you decide not to purchase, thank you for your interest from the CADtec3D team.
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